TALK 13/3/2023: PCA Design Conference

Going once… Going twice… SOLD! For 350,000 euros… On October 19, 2018, an anonymous bidder phoned in the winning bid for an art piece that was created by the Obvious Art Group using Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI-assisted art production had symbolically arrived as a major player in the art market. Artificial Intelligence is changing digital image-making and how artists adapt and transfer their skills to this new technology will be important. However, AI’s arrival into image making is more complex than one might think. In this presentation, we look at practicing AI artists and examine the many issues and questions that their work uncovers. We will also look at how to create with text-to-image AI image generators. We will gain a better understanding of how AI is changing the image-making landscape as well as what it takes to transfer skills into the new medium. Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.